GIFT  OF 


Realization 


REALIZATION 


I 


'<eUhe  mind  must  be  master 
oj  the  body. " 


REALIZATION 


This  little  book  was  written 
to  encourage  reckless,  discour- 
aged and  gloomy  people — to 
promote  the  health,  happiness 
and  beauty  of  all  who  read  it. 
The^  object  is  certainly  laud- 
able and  if  it  proves  beneficial 
to  even  a  small  number  of  per- 
sons, the  author  will  consider 
himself  amply  compensated  for 
his  effort. 

1918 

WOCOMBt  PMNTIN  •*£&**'  W  TENTH  §T 


REALIZATION! 

THOUGHT  may  change 
the  course  of  life.  The 
life  of  many  people  who  are 
gradually  drifting  into  ruin 
would  be  changed  into  one  of 
happiness  and  prosperity,  if 
they  would  only  pause  and  seri- 
ously consider  conditions  af- 
fecting them. 

Three  forces  or  influences 
largely  control  and  shape  the 
life  and  destiny  of  every  per- 
son. The  first,  perhaps,  is  in- 
herited traits  and  tendencies, 
the  condition  that  is  naturally 
imposed  upon  all  by  parents 

and    ancestors — the    second    is 

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environment ;  and  the  third,  I 
will  say,  is  habit. 

We  come  into  this  world 
burdened  with  the  imperfec- 
tions of  many  generations. 
The  responsibilities  of  parent- 
age are  very  great,  and  seldom 
well  understood  or  appreciated 
The  sins  of  parents  are  visited 
upon  their  children  even  "to 
the  third  and  fourth  genera- 
tions." Children  generally  look 
like  and  inherit  the  traits,  in- 
stincts and  characteristics  of 
parents  and  grandparents. 
This  is  an  admitted  fact.  The 
mental  as  well  as  the  physical 
traits,  characteristics  and  con- 


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ditions  of  parents  are  trans- 
mitted to  their  children.  That 
child  is  indeed  very  fortunate 
who  has  a  good  father  and 
mother,  but  comparatively  few 
children  are  endowed  with 
such  a  blessing. 

Almost  every  person  is  af- 
flicted with  some  ailment, 
some  mental  or  physical  de- 
fect. How  many  people  are  in 
perfect  health?  It  is  doubtful 
if  there  is  one  such  in  a  hun- 
dred. Natural  law,  if  obeyed, 
would  in  time  regenerate  hu- 
manity and  restore  all,  at  least 
a  large  majority  of  people,  to 
perfect  health,  because,  while 


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we  are  burdened  with  inherited 
imperfections,  physically  and 
mentally,  they  can  all  be  erad- 
icated in  time,  if  we  only  live 
in  harmony  with  the  laws  of 
nature.  This  is  a  consoling 
thought. 

We  are  taught,  and  it  is 
probably  true,  that  every  per- 
son is  recreated  in  from  five  to 
seven  years;  that  the  process 
of  elimination  and  recreation 
is  constantly  going  on  within 
us,  and  if  we  only  live  right 
and  yield  ourselves  to  the  full 
force  of  natural  law,  we  will 
the  sooner  become  regenerated, 
healthy  and  happy.  When  we 


REALIZATION 

stop  to  consider  how  people 
disregard  the  laws  of  life  and 
actually  trample  the  laws  of 
nature  under  foot,  so  to  speak, 
the  wonder  is  that  the  race  is 
as  well  and  strong  as  it  is. 

Ignorance  is  a  great  obstacle 
in  the  way  of  progress.  Peo- 
ple do  not  think  right.  They 
do  not  reason  right.  As  a  man 
thinketh,  so  is  he,  has  been 
truly  said.  Thoughts  largely 
control  action.  The  mind 
must  be  master  of  the  body. 
If  so,  good  thoughts,  correct, 
healthy  thinking  will  ulti- 
mately produce  a  healthy  body. 
Immoral  thoughts  will  pro- 


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duce  immoral  desires.  Pure 
thoughts  invigorate  both  the 
mind  and  body.  They  are  a 
better  tonic  than  any  medicine. 
Good,  pure  thoughts  strength- 
en the  will,  increase  courage, 
give  vigor  to  the  brain,  health 
to  the  body  and  love  to  the 
heart. 

There  are  two  roads  that 
lead  out  from  every  person. 
One  leads  to  health,  strength, 
beauty,  long  life,  honor  and 
happiness;  the  other  to  sick- 
ness, sorrow,  gloom,  disease 
and  death.  The  allurements 
and  temptations  are  many,  and 

it    requires    courage    and     will 
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power  to  resist  them. 

There  is  nothing  more  ut- 
terly false  and  misleading  than 
the  idea  that  success  is  meas- 
ured by  the  amount  of  money 
or  property  acquired.  A  suc- 
cessful life  is  a  clean,  healthy, 
useful,  happy  life.  Right 
thinking  and  right  living  is  the 
road  to  success.  It  is  success. 
Just  as  soon  as  we  commence 
to  think  right  and  live  right 
we  are  already  successful,  and 
become  more  and  more  so 
every  day  we  pursue  this 
course.  The  very  thought  that 
we  are  improving  our  condi- 
tion and  becoming  stronger 


REALIZATION 

increases   our   confidence     and 
happiness. 

Success  is  within  the  reach 
of  all;  the  poor  and  the  sick, 
as  well  as  the  rich  and  the 
strong.  Just  live  right,  think 
right  and  act  right.  Be  hon- 
est with  yourself.  You  know 
what  is  right.  Just  simply 
have  the  courage  to  do  what 
you  know  to  be  right  in  all 
things  and  when  you  do,  you 
have  already  entered  the  gate- 
way to  true  happiness.  You 
will  have  attained  success  that 
is  beautiful  and  lasting  and 
that  will  crown  your  life  with 

honor  and  plenty.     A  vast  ma- 
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jority  of  people  do  not  think 
right.  They  may  think  that 
they  are  wise,  but  they  are 
not.  They  delude  themselves. 
They  wander  away  from  the 
right  path  into  the  bewildering 
fog  of  ignorance  and  dissipa- 
tion, and  then  complain  and 
grumble  because  they  have  not 
succeeded,  when  failure  was 
all  their  own  fault. 

One  must  not  only  think 
right,  but  act  right.  Will 
power  must  be  cultivated.  If 
you  are  easily  influenced  to  do 
what  you  ought  not  to  do  and 
what  you  afterwards  regret 

having     done,     cultivate     and 

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strengthen  your  will  power. 
Do  not  yield  to  evil  inclina- 
tions. Be  firm.  If  you  are 
asked  to  do  something  that 
your  judgment  and  conscience 
tell  you  that  you  should  not 
do,  refuse.  You  will  be  strong- 
er for  the  position  you  have 
taken  and  will  have  more  con- 
fidence in  yourself  and  be  more 
respected  by  others.  Every 
stand  taken  for  the  right  and 
against  wrong  will  increase 
your  self-respect,  and  it  will 
become  a  positive  pleasure  to 
resist  and  overcome  tempta- 
tion. Have  faith  in  yourself 

that  you  will  succeed.     When 
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you  determine  that  you  will 
succeed  and  have  faith  that 
you  will,  your  success  is  al- 
most certain. 

A  vast  majority  of  people 
are  in  moderate  circumstances 
financially,  and  a  large  num- 
ber are  very  poor,  while  many 
are  wealthy,  and  a  few  are 
very  rich.  This  unequal  con- 
dition has  always  existed  and 
probably  always  will.  It  will 
unless  the  people  come  to  a 
better  understanding  of  them- 
selves and  act  differently  from 
what  they  have  heretofore. 
This  difference  is  largely  at- 
tributable to  ignorance.  Ig- 

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norance  can  only  be  overcome 
and  obliterated  by  proper  edu- 
cation;  not  that  character  of 
education  which  consists  en- 
tirely of  book  learning,  but 
that  better  and  far  more  use- 
ful education  which  teaches  us 
how  to  make  the  best  use  of 
life.  First,  how  to  reach  the 
highest,  best,  and  most  per- 
fect development,  physically, 
mentally  and  morally,  that  we 
are  capable  of  attaining,  and 
when  this  is  accomplished, 
then  to  live  in  such  a  way  as 
to  get  the  most  out  of  life  for 
ourselves,  and  to  do  the  most 

for  our  fellowmen.     A  proper 
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REALIZATION 

education  promotes  health  and 
beauty  and  happiness.  With 
health,  physical  strength  and 
vigor,  come  increased  mental 
power,  clearer  vision,  better 
thought,  and  better  under- 
standing; more  courage  to 
grapple  with  the  difficult  sit- 
uations of  life ;  such  a  person 
is  more  resourceful  in  all  re- 
spects. This  education  is  ac- 
quired by  personal  effort,  by 
self-denial,  and  self-sacrifice. 

Each  individual  is  largely, 
almost  entirely,  responsible  for 
his  own  condition.  If  you  do 
not  get  along  in  the  world,  it 

is  your  own  fault  in  most  in- 

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stances.  Every  one  can  be 
healthy,  strong,  prosperous, 
and  happy,  if  he  only  makes 
the  proper  effort.  Each  indi- 
vidual must  work  out  his  own 
salvation.  This  requires  cour- 
age, persistent  determination, 
faith,  and  perseverance.  You 
can  conquer  your  evil  propen- 
sities if  you  determine  to  do 
so,  by  your  own  persistent, 
mental  effort.  No  one  else  can 
work  it  out  for  you.  It  is 
something  you  alone  can  do. 

I    have   said   that   there    are 
only   a   few   people   in    perfect 
health.     This  is  a  sad  and  de- 
plorable   condition. 
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Abject  poverty  with  added 
sickness  and  suffering  is  in- 
deed very  discouraging.  When 
we  scrutinize  closely  the  phys- 
ical, mental  and  moral  condi- 
tion of  the  people,  we  find  a 
large  class  which  certainly  do 
not  present  a  very  hopeful  out- 
look for  the  future.  A  vast 
number  of  people  are  almost 
continually  under  the  doctor's 
care,  or  are  taking  medicine 
of  some  kind.  Doctors  and 
medicine  may  give  temporary 
relief,  but  they  do  not  and  can- 
not remove  the  cause  of  the 
trouble,  and  until  the  cause  is 

removed,  the  trouble  will  con- 

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tinue.  Every  person,  who  is 
not  sick  beyond  recovery,  has 
the  power  within  himself  to 
restore  himself  to  health,  and 
each  individual  has  the  power 
within  himself  to  accomplish 
the  great  work  of  regenera- 
tion and  in  this  way  decaying 
and  discouraged  humanity  may 
be  redeemed  from  the  thrall- 
dom  of  disease,  poverty  and 
ignorance,  and  the  human 
world  clothed  in  strength, 
beauty  and  happiness. 

Health,  prosperity  and  hap- 
piness are  in  the  easy  reach  of 
almost  every  person,  yet 

strange    to    say,    people    grope 
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in  darkness  and  grumble  and 
stumble  along  when  they  can 
more  easily  walk  in  the  pure 
light  of  reason  and  sound  com- 
mon sense.  If  you  are  sick, 
live  right  and  you  will  be  re- 
stored to  health.  You  will 
not  recover  in  a  day  or  in  a 
month  or  in  a  year,  perhaps, 
for  you  may  have  been  indulg- 
ing for  years  in  some  excess  or 
improper  habit,  or  even  in 
some  vice,  consequently  a  dis- 
ease that  is  the  result  of  years 
of  excessive  indulgence,  or  im- 
proper living,  will  not  disap- 
pear immediately,  even  if  the 

cause  is  removed,  but  in  many 

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cases  improvement  will  be 
rapid  and  in  all  cases  restora- 
tion will  finally  be  accom- 
plished, if  a  correct  course  of 
conduct  is  firmly  adhered  to. 

The  remedy  I  suggest  for 
sickness,  suffering  and  poverty 
is  with  the  view  of  especially 
aiding  the  great,  struggling 
masses,  but  it  is  equally  good 
and  useful  for  the  rich,  even  if 
they  are  better  able  to  help 
themselves.  It  is  the  sacred 
duty  of  every  person  to  be 
healthy.  You  can  be  healthy 
and  will  be  if  you  live  right. 
Industry,  economy,  and  right 

living    will     bring     prosperity 

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and  happiness. 

Any  young  man,  no  matter 
how  poor  he  may  be,  if  he  will 
only  live  right,  can  support  a 
wife,  and  with  the  assistance 
of  a  good  wife,  can  establish 
and  own  a  home  and  be  inde- 
pendent. Many  will  say,  "Oh, 
that  is  impossible."  It  is  not 
impossible.  The  right  kind  of 
a  man  with  the  right  kind  of  a 
wife,  working  together  in  love 
and  harmony,  will  acquire  a 
home  and  will  be  perfectly 
happy  while  engaged  in  that 
very  laudable  duty. 

Every    man    should    marry. 

Every  man  should  have  a  wife 

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and  a  home.  He  may  be  a 
laboring  man  and  work  for 
small  wages.  Even  so,  if  he 
and  his  wife  truly  love  each 
other,  they  will  plan  and  econ- 
omize and  will  strive  to  own 
a  little  home,  and  little  by  lit- 
tle they  will  furnish  it,  and 
although  the  furnishing  may 
be  cheap  and  plain,  the  home 
will  be  kept  so  clean,  neat  and 
cozy  that  it  will  at  least  be 
inviting,  cheerful  and  sunny, 
and  such  a  home  is  beautiful 
in  the  estimation  of  a  properly 
educated  person.  The  hus- 
band and  wife  love  each  other. 

They   have   consecrated  them- 
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selves   to   each   other,   to   their 
home,  and  good  citizenship. 

Love  is  the  most  divine,  the 
most  ennobling  influence  that 
enriches  and  beautifies  human 
life.  Without  love  and  the  sen- 
timents emanating  from  it, 
life  would  be  a  failure.  Love 
is  radiant  and  beautiful.  It 
sanctifies  everything  that 
comes  within  the  radius  of  its 
influence.  The  man  who  truly 
loves  his  wife  is  a  better  man 
and  better  citizen,  and  is  more 
courageous  than  he  otherwise 
would  be.  He  goes  gladly  to 
his  task,  and  his  work  is  light- 
er. It  is  a  pleasure  to  work 

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for  some  one  he  loves.  He 
loves  his  wife,  she  loves  him. 
He  is  working  for  her  and 
their  little  home ;  she  is  work- 
ing for  him.  They  both  love 
their  home.  He  does  not  spend 
any  money  for  tobacco  or 
beer,  because  he  cannot  afford 
the  expense  and  he  knows  that 
he  will  be  better  without  them. 
He  saves  his  money  to  beauti- 
fy his  home.  He  is  clean, 
healthy,  strong,  and  manly,  be- 
cause he  does  not  dissipate  in 
any  way.  He  lives  a  clean, 
healthy  life.  He  spends  his 
leisure  hours  at  home.  He  en- 
joys planting  and  cultivating 
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flowers  and  vines,  or  helping 
in  some  way  to  beautify  his 
home  and  make  it  more  at- 
tractive. He  has  no  desire  to 
spend  his  time  at  clubs  or 
about  saloons,  because  his  love 
and  interest  is  centered  in  his 
home.  It  is  a  more  beautiful 
place.  He  would  rather  re- 
main at  home  with  his  loving 
wife  and  work  in  the  garden 
or  read  than  to  loiter  in  a 
saloon.  His  wife  is  a  lovely 
woman.  She  is  beautiful.  Con- 
tentment and  happiness  pro- 
mote beauty.  She  is  refined 
and  intelligent  as  well  as  in- 
dustrious. She  loves  her  hus- 

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band  because  he  is  a  worthy 
man  and  besides  he  is  always 
kind  to  her  and  considerate  of 
her  happiness  and  welfare.  She 
has  faith  in  him.  She  knows 
that  he  is  honest  and  truthful 
and  is  true  to  her,  and  be- 
cause she  instinctively  knows 
this  and  knows  him  to  be  in 
all  respects  a  strong,  honest, 
manly  man,  she  loves  him  de- 
votedly, and,  notwithstanding 
he  may  be  poor  and  always 
remain  in  the  ranks  of  toil,  to 
her  discerning  eye,  he  is  an 
ideal  man.  He  has  made  her 
life  supremely  happy.  She  is 

proud  to  be  his  wife  and  proud 
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that  he  is  the  father  of  her 
children.  By  their  united  ef- 
forts and  devoted  love,  they 
have  established  a  home. 
Their  fireside,  humble  though 
it  be,  is  a  sacred  altar,  con- 
secrated by  true  love,  by  man- 
ly and  womanly  devotion.  It 
is  an  honored  happy  home. 
The  children  emanating  from 
such  a  home  will  probably  be 
good  and  useful  citizens.  Such 
homes  tend  to  make  a  nation 
strong  and  great.  The  influ- 
ence of  such  homes  reach  out 
toward  a  higher  and  grander 
civilization.  Such  a  home  is 

within  the  reach  of  every  man 

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and  every  woman.  To  have 
a  home  and  be  free  from  debt, 
and  have  a  little  money  be- 
sides, brings  contentment,  and 
contentment  promotes  health. 
Why  should  so  many  suffer 
with  disease  and  sadly  strug- 
gle on  with  poverty  when  re- 
lief from  all  these  ills  is  with- 
in their  reach?  Pause  and 
seriously  think  and  you  must 
admit  that  this  is  true.  Her- 
bert Spencer  says  in  one  of 
his  books  that  ordinarily  half 
of  life  is  thrown  away.  Why 
not  save  it?  How  much  bet- 
ter, stronger,  and  happier  the 

race    would    be    if    we    would 
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only  save  the  half  of  life  that 
is  wasted, — If  what  Spencer 
has  said  is  true.  The  mad 
scramble  for  money  is  a  fear- 
ful evil.  People  will  lie,  cheat 
and  steal  for  money.  They 
sacrifice  honor,  integrity  and 
chastity  for  money.  Some  of 
our  rich  men  are  very  dishon- 
est. They  have  acquired  great 
wealth  by  fraud,  deception  and 
commercial  trickery,  but  it 
does  not  bring  happiness. 
They  hire  a  venal  press  to  aid 
in  their  dishonest  methods. 
They  even  attain  to  high  office 
and  distinction,  but  any  pre- 
tended honor  they  may  achieve, 

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or  confer  upon  others  whom 
they  advance  to  position  that 
they  may  be  used  to  aid  dis- 
honest schemes,  is  artificial 
and  will  not  endure. 

Good  character,  honesty,  and 
a  true  life  of  love  and  devo- 
tion to  duty  is  worth  far  more 
than  money. 

To  have  good  health  you 
must  think  right  and  live  right. 
Live  a  true,  loving,  kindly 
life.  Health  promotes  beauty. 
Every  one  should,  by  thought 
and  action,  strive  to  become 
more  perfect  and  more  attrac- 
tive. Attractive  people  get 

along  in  the  world  much  bet- 
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ter  than  sour  and  morose  and 
homely  people.  I  believe  that 
almost  every  woman  can  be 
attractive  if  she  only  makes 
the  proper  effort.  Nature 
sought  to  make  woman  the 
most  beautiful  object  in  all 
the  world  and  to  a  large  ex- 
tent this  purpose  has  been  ac- 
complished, but  many  women 
are  not  as  beautiful  as  they 
would  like  to  be,  and  as  they 
ought  to  be,  and  could  be,  if 
they  would  think  right  and 
live  right.  It  is  the  duty  of 
every  woman  to  be  as  beauti- 
ful as  possible.  The  first  es- 
sential to  beauty  is  health. 

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Perfect  health  is  necessary  for 
perfect  beauty  and  in  order  to 
have  health,  one  must  live  in 
harmony  with  the  laws  of 
nature,  the  laws  of  God.  Live 
a  clean  life.  Cleanliness  is  the 
most  important  virtue.  The 
laws  of  health  require  plenty 
of  sleep  and  good,  plain  nour- 
ishing food  in  moderation. 
Food  thoroughly  masticated  is 
the  more  stimulating.  Exer- 
cise is  better  than  medicine. 
The  passions  and  temper 
should  be  kept  in  subjection. 
Anger  is  very  hurtful  to  health. 
It  generates  a  poison  in  the 

system.    Do  not  fret  and  scold. 
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Live  a  clean,  sweet,  gentle, 
kindly,  useful  life  and  you  will 
be  beautiful  and  lovely,  and 
make  others  happy  and  you 
will  be  happy.  Such  a  woman 
will  be  loved  and  almost  wor- 
shiped. The  lovable  are 
loved.  This  is  always  true. 
If  you  wish  to  be  loved,  make 
yourself  lovable  by  living  a 
good,  true,  pure  life  and  you 
will  certainly  accomplish  your 
object.  You  will  not  only  be 
loved,  honored  and  admired, 
but  you  will  accomplish  a 
great  deal  of  good  in  the 
world. 

All  of  these  beautiful  traits 

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that  are  essential  to  perfect, 
splendid  womanhood  may  as 
easily  adorn  the  wife  of  the 
laboring  man  as  the  wife  of 
the  millionaire.  The  children 
of  such  a  woman,  with  a  good, 
true,  healthy,  loving  husband, 
will  be  healthy,  strong,  beauti- 
ful and  intelligent.  They  will 
be  carefully  and  properly 
trained  and  educated  and  will 
grow  up  to  bless  their  home, 
honor  their  parents  and  make 
good  citizens.  Such  people 
make  a  nation  strong  and 
great  and  advance  the  cause 
of  civilization.  Such  people 

are  truthful,  honest,   and   love 
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REALIZATION 

justice.  So  it  will  be  seen 
that  that  course  of  life  which 
brings  health,  happiness,  love 
and  beauty  to  the  home  of  the 
toiler  brings  safety  and  pros- 
perity to  the  nation.  Good, 
splendid,  honest  men  and 
women  are  the  most  precious 
and  valuable  possession  of  any 
country.  Those  essential  quali- 
ties that  promote  the  happi- 
ness and  welfare  of  the  labor- 
ing people,  promote  the  best 
interests  of  the  country. 

My  object  is  to  bring  relief 
to  the  gloomy,  discouraged 
and  poor,  by  suggesting  a 

remedy     that     is     within     the 

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REALIZATION 

reach  of  all,  a  heaven  here  as 
well  as  hereafter.  A  little 
cozy  cottage  home  with  vines 
and  flowers  and  butterflies 
about  its  doors  and  windows, 
where  the  atmosphere  is  re- 
dolent with  the  fragrance  of 
roses,  the  home  of  a  strong, 
honest,  manly,  intelligent  man 
and  a  pure,  beautiful,  refined 
woman,  who  love  each  other 
devotedly  and  who  are  worthy 
of  each  other's  love;  is  the 
heaven  here.  Is  this  not  bet- 
ter than  beer  and  tobacco  and 
the  fumes  of  the  saloon?  Is 
it  not  better  than  disease,  filth, 

and   degradation? 
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REALIZATION 

Then  why  hesitate  to  accept 
life  and  health  and  love  and 
happiness?  Have  faith.  Make 
the  effort.  Exercise  your  will 
and  determination.  You  alone 
can  do  this.  No  doctor  or 
minister  or  friend  can  do  it  for 
you.  Your  success  depends 
upon  yourself.  As  soon  as 
you  determine  to  pursue  this 
new  course  of  life,  it  will  be  a 
pleasure  to  take  the  first  step, 
because  you  can  see  that  your 
reward  is  certain,  and  the  fur- 
ther you  go  on  the  right  road 
the  stronger  and  happier  you 
become  and  the  more  deter- 
mined to  succeed.  Your  ef- 

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REALIZATION 

fort  becomes  a  pleasure  that 
you  pursue  gladly.  As  you 
leave  off  the  old  habits  and 
take  on  new  life  and  health, 
and  the  mind  emerges  from 
the  miasma  of  dissipation,  and 
by  a  clear  vision  you  see  the 
beauty  of  a  free,  clean,  healthy 
life,  you  realize  a  happiness 
you  have  not  before  known. 

Individual  right  living  can 
redeem  a  people.  The  simple 
life  is  the  useful,  happy  life, 
and  the  simple  precepts  and 
suggestions  herein  are  worthy 
of  the  consideration  of  the  rich 
as  well  as  the  poor.  Health 

is  necessary  to  the  enjoyment 
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R   E   ALIZATION 

of  life.  Many  rich  men  are 
miserable  because  they  do  not 
live  right.  Disease  is  the  pen- 
alty for  disobedience,  for  sin, 
and  a  man  who  commits  a 
crime  injures  himself  more 
than  any  one  else.  Crime  is 
illogical  and  foolish.  A  rich 
man  who  accomplishes  by 
bribery  what  he  can  not  do 
legally  is  a  criminal,  and  he 
may  reasonably  expect  his 
children  to  be  like  him.  A 
man  can  not  be  a  liar  and  dis- 
honest and  gain  success  by 
bribery  and  expect  to  have 
honest  children.  You  can  not 

cheat   nature.       Healthy,    hon- 

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REALIZATION 

est  children  are  the  best 
product  of  any  country.  Good 
blood  and  good  breeding 
count  for  very  much.  A 
child  who  has  inherited  the 
taint  of  disease  and  crime  may, 
by  proper  education  and  cul- 
ture, eliminate  the  same  and 
become  healthy  and  honest. 
This  requires  understanding, 
care  and  diligence.  Utter  ab- 
ject poverty  is  degrading  in 
effect.  Very  poor  people  are 
likely  to  become  discour- 
aged and  lose  hope  and  drift 
into  dissipation  and  crime.  No 
matter  how  criminal,  dissipat- 
ed and  degraded  people  be- 
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REALIZATION 

come,  they  admire  the  pure, 
the  beautiful  and  the  good. 
Success  is  accomplished  by 
individual  effort.  In  this  way, 
a  nation  is  elevated  and  made 
strong. 

The  excessive  love  of  money 
is  an  evil  to  be  guarded 
against.  In  fact  it  is  the  great- 
est of  all  evils.  To  live  a 
clean,  true,  honest,  healthy 
life  is  far  more  noble  and  wor- 
thy of  honor  than  the  acquisi- 
tion of  great  wealth.  Wealth 
acquired  by  honest  industry, 
economy  and  prudence  is 
honorable,  but  one  who  takes 

advantage  of  others  by  decep- 

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REALIZATION 

tion  or  imposition,  and  de- 
prives them  of  their  property, 
or  curtails  their  opportunities, 
is  not  much,  if  any  better  than 
a  thief. 

There  is  an  honest  and  a 
right  way  to  live,  and  it  is  the 
way  that  brings  the  most  hap- 
piness to  the  individual,  and 
the  most  benefit  to  the  com- 
munity and  state.  If  all  were 
honest,  kind,  industrious,  and 
healthy,  the  world  would  be  a 
far  more  delightful  place. 
There  would  be  more  love, 
confidence  and  courage.  There 
would  be  no  more  gloom,  de- 
spair and  suicide.  Every 
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REALIZATION 

heart  and  home  would  be  the 
abiding  place  of  joy.  Joy 
would  sing  to  a  bright  and 
radiant  world  its  sweetest 
songs.  All  sad,  sour,  sickly, 
melancholy  faces  would  dis- 
appear. Pale,  sad  women  and 
vicious,  dissipated  men  would 
soon  be  imbued  with  new  life. 
The  smile  of  joy  and  grati- 
tude would  chase  away  the 
gloom  of  despair.  What  a 
lovely  world  this  would  be. 
All  would  have  plenty.  All 
would  be  happy. 

Good    and    evil    are    set    be- 
fore   every    one.      Choose    the 

good   and   be   happy.     Choose 

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REALIZATION 

the  evil  and  be  miserable. 
Health  is  for  all,  but  few  ac- 
cept it.  Disease  is  an  effect 
produced  by  a  cause.  Remove 
the  cause  and  the  effect  dis- 
appears. Better  still,  avoid 
the  cause  and  there  will  not 
be  any  disease. 

The  first  step  towards  health 
is  to  think  right.  Be  more 
self-denying,  more  self-sacrific- 
ing, be  kind  and  helpful  to 
others.  This  may  require  a 
great  effort,  but  the  effort  be- 
comes a  pleasure.  To  be  kind, 
loving  and  helpful  to  others 
will  bring  happiness  and  in- 
fluence. Love  is  power.  Love 
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REALIZATION 

and  kindness  will  disarm  an 
enemy.  If  one  nation  is  loving 
and  kind  to  another,  there  will 
be  no  war.  Love  is  a  most 
potential  influence. 

Thought  and  intelligence  en- 
able us  to  see  and  appreciate 
the  beautiful  side  of  nature 
and  the  true  life.  One  does 
not  have  to  be  rich  in  order 
to  think.  The  poor  can  read 
and  think  and  understand  as 
well  as  the  rich.  Poverty  can 
not  bar  out  wisdom ;  it  can 
not  fetter  the  mind.  If  each 
individual  will  silently  resolve 
to  reform  his  mode  of  life,  to 

think  right  and  act  right  in  all 

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REALIZATION 

things,  and  will  patiently,  per- 
sistently and  faithfully  carry 
out  this  resolution,  force  and 
influence  will  thereby  be  creat- 
ed, which  will  elevate  the  na- 
tion and  bring  peace,  health 
and  happiness  to  the  world. 

Love  is  the  most  potential 
influence  we  know.  Love  will 
conquer  where  bayonets  and 
battleships  fail,  and  when  the 
world  is  animated  by  a  spirit 
of  righteousness,  war  will 
cease  and  crime,  dissipation 
and  misery  will  disappear. 

Environment  has  much  to 
do  in  the  formation  of  char- 
acter. We  are  imperceptibly, 
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REALIZATION 

but  naturally  affected  by  our 
surroundings,  by  the  elements 
in  which  we  live,  the  air  we 
breathe,  the  food  we  eat,  by 
what  we  drink,  the  clothes  we 
wear,  the  society  in  which  we 
live,  as  well  as  those  with 
whom  we  associate.  The 
climate  in  which  we  live,  the 
books  and  papers  we  read,  all 
have  an  influence  over  us.  We 
become  more  and  more  like 
that  which  we  come  in  con- 
stant contact  with.  We  un- 
consciously acquire  the  man- 
nerisms of  those  about  us.  We 
naturally  adapt  ourselves  to 

our    surrounding's.      We    grad- 

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REALIZATION 

ually  yield  to  conditions. 

"Vice    is    a    monster    of    so 

frightful  mien, 
As,  to  be  hated,  needs  but 

to  be  seen 
Yet   seen   too   oft,   familiar 

with  her  face, 
We  first  endure,  then  pity, 

then  embrace." 

A  child  reared  in  a  home 
of  refinement,  among  clean, 
gentle,  cultured  people,  is  more 
likely  to  be  a  good  citizen  than 
one  who  is  reared  among 
coarse,  vulgar,  profligate  peo- 
ple. Of  course,  there  are  ex- 
ceptions to  all  rules.  In  some 
cases  inherited  evil  tendencies 
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R  E  A  L  I   Z   A  T  I   O   N 

are  so  strong  that  they  can  not 
be  restrained  even  by  the  best 
environment,  and  in  other 
cases  inherited  good  tenden- 
cies are  so  predominant  that 
they  overcome  the  influence  of 
evil  environment,  but  these 
cases  are  exceptions  to  the 
general  rule. 

A  clean,  well  regulated,  or- 
derly city,  adorned  with  trees, 
shrubbery,  flowers,  gardens, 
splendid  parks  and  plenty  of 
music  promotes  the  virtue, 
patriotism  and  integrity  of  its 
inhabitants,  while  a  filthy  city 
breeds  crime  and  criminals. 

The  problem  of  self-govern- 

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REALIZATION 

ment  is  yet  to  be  solved.  Its 
permanent  success  really  de- 
pends more  upon  the  character 
and  intelligence  of  the  people 
than  anything  else.  So  long 
as  the  people  think  right  and 
have  the  courage  to  do  right, 
our  future  as  a  nation  is 
secure. 

We  each  have  much  to  do 
in  making  our  environment. 
As  we  improve  ourselves,  we 
improve  those  about  us.  A 
good  environment  means  far 
more  than  most  people  realize. 
Take  two  children  of  equal 
age  and  equal  natural  advant- 
ages. Have  one  brought  up 
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REALIZATION 

in  a  clean,  beautiful  home, 
among  kind  and  gentle,  re- 
fined, cultured  people,  and  the 
other  in  a  disorderly  home, 
among  coarse,  vulgar,  slovenly 
people,  and  bring  them  to- 
gether again  at  twenty  years 
of  age,  and,  as  a  rule,  with 
some  exceptions,  you  will  no- 
tice a  marked  difference  in 
them.  Environment  has  an 
important  bearing  on  life.  One 
who  realizes  this  fact  can,  if 
he  will,  resist  and  overcome 
the  evil  effects  of  bad  environ- 
ment. 

Unless  we  do  recognize  the 

danger    of    the    evil    influences 

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REALIZATION 

that  we  come  in  contact  with, 
and  by  silent  thought,  mental 
energy  and  will  power  repel 
them,  we  passively  and  imper- 
ceptibly drift  into  the  evil  way. 
Health,  happiness  and  des- 
tiny we  can  control.  They 
are  within  our  grasp.  If  we 
energize  our  mental  faculties 
and  see  and  realize  the  un- 
failing beauty  and  charm  of 
the  true,  contrasted  with  the 
false  course,  we  can  by  ex- 
ercising will  power  gradually 
grow  into  a  strong,  healthy, 
happy,  beautiful  life.  This  we 
alone  can  accomplish.  Others 

can   not  do  this   for  us.     The 
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REALIZATION 

mind,  mental  energy,  will 
power,  correct  thought,  mental 
and  physical  effort,  with  faith 
is  the  medicine  that  will  bring 
you  out  of  a  sickly,  evil, 
gloomy  environment  into  a 
serene,  healthy,  happy,  beauti- 
ful life.  Take  courage.  Mas- 
ter all  your  mental  and  physi- 
cal energy.  Realize  that  there 
is  a  better  life  for  you;  that 
it  is  within  your  reach;  that 
it  is  yours  almost  immedi- 
ately. When  you  have  deter- 
mined to  live  the  clean,  simple, 
kindly  life,  joy  beckons  you  on 
and  on  and  sings  to  you  as  you 

toil,  and  strews  your  pathway 

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REALIZATION 

with  flowers  of  hope  that  glad- 
den the  heart.  If  you  are  un- 
happy, it  is  your  own  fault. 
God  will  help  those  who  help 
themselves.  He  will  give  wis- 
dom to  those  who  think. 

Habit  is  a  course  of  conduct 
acquired  by  frequent  repetition 
When  fixed,  it  becomes  second 
nature.  It  may  be  either  in- 
tellectual or  moral.  In  ac- 
quiring habits,  the  favorable 
disposition  of  the  mind  is  of 
the  greatest  importance. 
Cleanliness,  health,  freshness, 
and  vigor  of  the  bodily  system 
are  conditions  of  the  growth 

of  habit.     We  find  in  man  pe- 
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REALIZATION 

cularities  of  mind,  temper  and 
thought,  which  are  really  the 
outgrowth  of  habit,  appearing 
and  reappearing  in  families 
and  races. 

Physical  and  mental  disease 
are  hereditary.  Mental  even 
as  much  as  physical.  The  sui- 
cidal impulse,  as  well  as  the 
uncontrollable  desire  for  stim- 
ulants, although  the  result  of 
habit,  may  be  the  heritage  of  a 
child.  Habit  is  a  growth.  It 
may  be  acquired  by  a  com- 
munity, a  race,  or  a  nation, 
as  well  as  by  an  individual. 
Community  or  national  habit 

is  the  result  of  individual  con- 

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REALIZATION 

duct.  Not  only  is  individual 
welfare  and  destiny  largely 
shaped  and  determined  by 
habit,  but  its  influence  reaches 
and  affects  more  or  less  the 
condition  of  the  whole  people. 
The  influence  of  habit  is  far 
reaching  and  the  result  can 
scarcely  be  measured  or  de- 
termined. Habit  is  the  result 
of  conduct.  By  mental  effort, 
by  the  exercise  of  will  power, 
conduct  is  controlled. 

Habit  may  become  so  strong 
as  to  be  master  of  the  mind. 
This  is  a  dangerous  condition. 
An  individual  may  acquire  the 

habit     of     using     intoxicants, 
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REALIZATION 

drugs,  or  even  tobacco  to  that 
extent  that  it  overcomes  and 
masters  the  mind  and  will.  A 
person  in  such  a  plight  is  in- 
deed pitiable.  Knowing  the 
strong,  predominating  influ- 
ence of  habit  over  the  conduct, 
we  can  appreciate  the  impor- 
tance of  forming  good  habits. 
People  should  be  moderate  in 
all  things.  The  use  of  tobacco 
in  moderation  may  not  be 
hurtful,  it  may  even  be  bene- 
ficial in  some  cases,  (but  when 
smoking  causes  one  to  expec- 
torate, he  should  not  smoke.) 
Many  people  eat  too  much. 

Over  eating  is  a  fruitful  cause 

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REALIZATION 

of  disease.  People  should  not 
eat  unless  they  are  hungry, 
and  should  eat  when  hungry 
and  if  possible  eat  what  the 
appetite  calls  for.  Food  that 
is  relished  is  more  easily  di- 
gested, more  quickly  assimilat- 
ed and  better  nourishes  the 
body  than  does  food  that  is 
not  relished.  They  should  not 
eat  if  they  are  angry,  worried 
or  agitated.  Anger  is  very  in- 
jurious to  health.  It  is  a  con- 
dition that  should  be  avoided. 
Cleanliness  is  the  highest 
and  most  important  virtue.  In 
order  to  have  perfect  health, 

one  must  live  clean, 
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REALIZATION 

The  mind  controls  the  body. 
A  good  mind,  firm,  just  and 
peaceful,  promotes  health. 
Mental  courage,  mental  en- 
ergy, mental  honesty  and  pur- 
ity lead  to  right  conduct.  We 
are  what  we  make  ourselves. 
Be  not  greedy,  avaricious  or 
parsimonious,  and  yet  be  fru- 
gal, economical  and  prudent. 
Extreme  poverty  and  extreme 
wealth  are  equally  bad.  To 
live  an  industrious,  clean,  con- 
tented, healthy  life  is  the 
course  of  wisdom. 

Habit  makes  all  things  easy. 
Make  cleanliness  a  habit,  and 
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REALIZATION 

produce  discomfort  and  misery. 
Make  sobriety  a  habit  and  in- 
temperance will  be  disgusting. 
Make  prudence  and  economy 
a  habit  and  reckless  profligacy 
will  be  contrary  to  the  disposi- 
tion of  such  a  person.  Give  a 
child  the  habit  of  sacredly  re- 
garding the  truth,  carefully 
respecting  the  property  of 
others,  and  it  will  abhor  lying 
or  stealing.  Many  young  men 
who  live  in  a  city  acquire  the 
habit  of  going  to  a  club  or 
saloon  in  the  evening,  where 
they  spend  their  money  for 
cigars  and  drink,  and  in  treat- 
ing others,  and  wasting  hours 
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REALIZATION 

and  hours  of  precious  time, 
and  really  injuring  their 
health,  and  wasting  their 
money  while  if  they  would 
remain  at  home  and  devote 
their  time  to  reading  good 
books,  they  would  save  their 
money,  preserve  their  health, 
and  would  become  stronger 
physically  and  intellectually, 
and  therefore  better  capable 
of  enjoying  the  blessings  of 
life.  In  fact,  they  would  be 
better  in  every  way. 

The  word  home  has  a  pleas- 
ing sound.  There  is  some- 
thing about  it  (the  word 

home)   that  is  fascinating  and 

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REALIZATION 

sacred.  Home  means  so  much. 
Associated  with  it  are  the 
words  father,  mother,  love. 
Every  person  should  have  a 
peaceful,  happy  home.  I  hold 
to  the  doctrine  that  nearly 
every  person  can  have  good 
health  if  he  make  the  proper 
effort.  Of  course,  some  will 
suffer  from  accidents,  some  by 
unavoidable  exposure  to  ex- 
treme heat  or  cold  or  storms. 
I  refer  to  the  thousands  of  sick 
who  have  no  such  excuse,  and 
whose  sickness  and  suffering 
is  caused  by  their  failure  to 
live  right.  I  will  admit  that 

much  sickness  is  the  result  of 
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REALIZATION 

ignorance.  Many  people  really 
commit  suicide  without  know- 
ing it.  They  do  not  do  it  in- 
tentionally, but  ignorantly. 
They  do  not  pause  and  medi- 
ate and  understand.  Of  course 
people  grow  old  and  die.  This 
is  natural.  People  should  die 
of  old  age.  Such  a  death  is 
painless.  It  is  sleep  and  rest. 
There  is  placed  before  us  the 
good  and  evil.  We  can  choose 
either.  The  evil  leads  to  sick- 
ness and  suffering,  the  good  to 
health  and  happiness.  We 
are  always  making  excuses  for, 
ourselves.  We  purposely  de- 
ceive, or  try  to  deceive  our- 

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REALIZATION 

selves.  We  knowingly  per- 
sist in  doing  what  we  realize 
is  hurtful  and  say  to  ourselves 
that  we  will  later  reform,  and 
keep  .putting  it  off  until  it  is 
too  late.  The  thing  to  do  is 
to  resolutely  stop  now.  Be 
firm.  Just  say,  "No,  no,  no,  I 
will  not  eat  too  much;  I  will 
not  smoke  too  much;  I  will 
not  swear  because  it  is  silly; 
I  will  not  be  a  liar,  because  it 
is  cowardly  and  pusilanimous. 
A  persistent  liar  is  really  the 
weakest  and  most  contempt- 
ible character  imaginable.  I 
will  not  indulge  in  any  excess, 

but   I   will  commence   now   to 
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REALIZATION 

live  a  clean,  true,  helpful,  kind- 
ly life."  The  moment  you 
form  such  a  resolution  and 
firmly  determine  to  live  up  to 
it,  you  feel  better,  and  the 
longer  you  continue  to  firmly 
adhere  to  it,  the  better  you 
feel  and  the  stronger  you  grow. 
Life  presents  a  brighter  out- 
look. You  are  better  able  to 
resist  temptation.  In  fact,  you 
begin  to  derive  a  positive 
pleasure  from  living  a  clean, 
honest,  kindly  life.  You  per- 
form all  the  functions  of  life 
with  keener  zest.  You  sleep 
better  and  are  more  refreshed 

by  sleep,  because  you  feel  free 

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from  fault  and  fear. 

One  may  acquire  the  habit 
of  idleness  and  waste  hours 
and  even  days  in  fruitless  talk 
with  other  idlers,  discussing 
questions  that  do  not  improve 
the  intellect,  possibly  telling  or 
listening  to  vulgar  stories  that 
are  disgusting  to  a  person  of 
refinement.  If  every  person 
would  live  a  clean,  honest,  in- 
dustrious life,  how  quickly 
would  conditions  improve.  If 
every  one  would  even  make 
an  effort  to  live  a  more  per- 
fact,  useful  life,  conditions 
would  quickly  improve.  Health 

would      improve.        Happiness 
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REALIZATION 

would  gladden  the  world. 

A  vast  number  of  people  are 
living  unclean,  unhappy  lives. 
They  are  poor,  sickly,  in  debt, 
and  discouraged,  and  almost 
hopeless.  In  most  cases,  these 
sad,  gloomy,  suffering,  people 
are  themselves  to  blame  for 
their  condition.  How  quickly 
could  this  gloom  be  dispelled, 
and  joy  and  gladness  be 
brought  into  every  sorrowing 
home,  if  the  proper  effort  was 
made. 

For  instance,  here  is  a  labor- 
ing man  who  is  young  and 
strong.  He  has  a  wife  and 

one  or  two  children.    They  do 

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not  own  a  home,  but  rent  a 
cheap  house  in  an  undesirable 
neighborhood.  (There  would 
be  no  undesirable  neighbor- 
hoods if  all  people  were  good.) 
This,  to  start  with,  is  a  handi- 
cap, so  to  speak.  The  wife  is 
good  and  true,  and  manages 
the  best  she  can.  The  price 
of  provisions  has  increased, 
they  have  sickness,  doctors' 
bills,  and  other  extra  expenses. 
The  husband  drinks,  smokes, 
plays  the  slot  machines.  Bills 
come  in  that  can  not  be  paid. 
Creditors  are  persistent.  They 
write  or  speak  harshly  to  the 

poor,     struggling     little     wife, 
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who  is  at  her  post  doing  the 
best  she  can.  The  husband 
finds  gloom  at  home  and  goes 
to  the  saloon,  where  the  lights 
are  burning  brightly,  and  he 
finds  more  cheerful  surround- 
ings. Business  is  dull.  Some 
of  the  men  must  be  discharged. 
This  one  drinks.  He  is  not 
so  efficient  as  the  one  who 
does  not  drink.  He  loses  his 
position.  He  has  no  money. 
He  is  in  debt.  His  wife  and 
children  need  clothing.  In 
fact,  he  needs  clothing  himself. 
What  will  she  do?  What  can 
she  do?  They  are  really  sub- 
jects of  charity.  She  is  forced 

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to  go  with  her  children  to  her 
parents,  if  she  is  so  fortunate 
as  to  have  parents  living,  or  to 
some  relative  or  to  strangers, 
or  to  place  her  children  in  a 
charitable  institution  and  go  to 
work  in  order  to  live.  What  a 
heartrending  tragedy  this  is! 
A  wife  separated  from  a  hus- 
band, from  her  children,  whom 
she  loves  as  only  a  mother  can 
love,  her  pride  crushed,  her 
very  heartstrings  torn  and 
broken,  her  husband  a  dissi- 
pated idler.  This  is  indeed  a 
sad  picture,  yet  it  is  not  over- 
drawn. There  are  hundreds 

such.       You     will     find     them 
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everywhere. 

There  is  an  element  of 
weakness  more  or  less  pro- 
nounced in  almost  every  per- 
son. All  persons  are  largely 
governed  by  circumstances. 
Such  cases  as  I  have  just  de- 
scribed lead  finally  to  the  di- 
vorce court.  Many,  who  do 
not  understand,  blame  the  law 
for  our  increased  number  of 
divorces.  It  is  not  the  fault  of 
the  law,  but  it  is  attributable 
to  the  bad  condition  of  society. 
Reform  society.  Change  con- 
ditions. Re-establish  society  on 
a  clean,  honest,  industrious 

basis,  and  homes  will  be  more 

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securely  established  and  the 
marriage  relations  more  sa- 
credly maintained.  Those 
whom  God  joins  together 
usually  remain  together.  Love, 
like  a  plant,  is  susceptible  of 
cultivation.  It  may  grow 
stronger  and  more  beautiful, 
or  it  may  be  starved  out  and 
die  from  neglect.  I  have  pre- 
sented a  picture  of  a  neglected 
home  and  its  bitter  fruits. 
This  picture  ns  not  overdrawn, 
but  it  is  true  to  life  in  many 
cases. 

A  young  couple   marry   and 
truly   love    each   other.     They 

are     accustomed     to     poverty. 
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They  have  seen  the  hideous 
monster  face  to  face  and  they 
are  determined  to  keep  out  of 
reach  of  its  merciless  teeth. 
Its  bite  is  keen  and  very  pain- 
ful to  a  sensitive  person,  so 
they  actually  take  pleasure  in 
being  very  saving  and  econom- 
ical, as  it  brings  them  further 
and  further  away  from  the 
monster.  Saving  becomes  to 
them  a  habit  as  well  as  a  pleas- 
ure. They  think.  They  have 
thought  the  subject  of  their 
condition  over  and  over  care- 
fully, and  they  have  discussed 
it  fully.  They  realize  that  in- 
dustry and  economy  are  nec- 

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essary  to  their  success,  that 
these  two  virtues  will  finally 
bring  them  to  a  position  of 
safety. 

Their  love  for  each  other  is 
genuine.  They  strive  to  make 
each  other  happy.  Little, 
kindly  attentions,  sweeten  life. 
Love  inspires  ambition,  in- 
creases faith,  strengthens  hope 
and  intensifies  all  the  pleas- 
ures of  life.  It  arouses  the 
finer  emotions,  the  better  im- 
pulses, and  adds  to  life  in  the 
humblest  .cottage  -a  charm  and 
beauty  that  seem  divine. 

It  is  indeed  the  divinest  in- 
fluence we  know.  Gentle  wo- 
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man,  pure,  sweet,  beautiful, 
tender  and  loving,  is  the  most 
charming  thing  created.  Even 
in  the  little  home,  humble 
though  it  be,  where  there  is 
mutual  love  and  confidence  be- 
tween husband  and  wife,  there 
will  exist  the  greatest  happi- 
ness man  or  woman  can 
know.  The  grandest  and  best 
position  that  any  woman  can 
occupy  is  to  be  the  good  wife 
of  a  good  man.  There  is  noth- 
ing more  precious  than  a  wo- 
man's love. 

A  man  who  can  see  no  suc- 
cess    except     in     money,     in 

wealth,  is   deluded.     I   do  not 

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condemn  wealth.  It  may  be 
and  often  is  a  blessing.  It  is 
so  especially  in  the  hands  of 
those  who  use  it,  not  to  op- 
press, but  to  bless  the  deserv- 
ing poor  and  unfortunate. 

But  what  I  would  impress 
upon  those  who  are  poor  and 
sick  and  discouraged  is  that 
they  do  not  have  to  acquire 
wealth  in  order  to  be  happy, 
that  health  and  happiness  are 
the  rewards  of  nature,  to  all 
who  will  accept  them.  Health 
and  happiness  are  within  the 
reach  of  the  poor  as  well  as 
the  rich.  The  rich  have  re- 
sponsibilities and  burdens 
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which  the  poor  do  not  know. 
There  never  was  a  time  when 
the  wealth  of  the  world  was 
evenly  divided  among  the  peo- 
ple and  there  never  will  be. 

There  is  a  vast  variety  of 
talent.  One  person  has  the 
money  making  talent,  while 
another  of  even  greater  abil- 
ity has  not,  but  has  a  talent 
for  doing  something  more  use- 
ful to  society.  All  have  within 
their  reach  those  things  which 
give  happiness,  comfort  and 
health  to  a  rational  person. 

The  secret  of  success  is  ex- 
cellence. "There  is  no  excel- 
lence without  great  labor." 

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Whatever  you  do,  do  it  well. 
A  man  who  thoroughly  under- 
stands his  business,  whatever 
it  may  be,  and  does  his  work 
perfectly,  is  a  success  and  will 
be  so  recognized  by  his  asso- 
ciates and  the  community  in 
which  he  lives.  A  young  man 
may  be  ambitious  and  desire 
political  honor,  but  while  this 
is  laudable,  he  should  remem- 
ber that  there  are  only  a  com- 
paratively few  official  posi- 
tions, while  there  are  hun- 
dreds of  opportunities  as  good 
and  even  better  than  official 
positions  presented  to  every 

man.     The   pleasures   of  office 
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are  not  what  they  seem.  The 
burdens  and  cares  of  office  are 
many  for  an  honest  man  and 
the  pleasures  are  more  appar- 
ent than  real.  There  are  op- 
portunities for  every  man,  no 
matter  what  his  business  may 
be,  to  become  successful  and 
happy.  If  he  diligently  and 
faithfully  pursues  his  vocation 
success  is  almost  certain  to 
crown  his  efforts. 

Some  may  and  often  do  rise 
above  their  environment,  while 
others  sink  below  it.  Environ- 
ment is  a  potential  influence, 
but  it  may  not  overcome  in- 
herited tendencies  and  some- 
times both  give  way  to  habit. 

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